Rich vs King

Be rich, not king: HubSpot's founders chose to swing for the fences

Dharmesh and Brian agreed from day one they didn't want a single or double — at every fork they'd take the path with the higher chance of a spectacular outcome, accepting they might crash and burn. They weren't worried about dilution or control; they wanted to be rich, not king.

“we didn't want a single or double hit, right? We wanted to swing for the fences. And either we do this and we're good at every point that we have a decision to make, a fork in the road, we are going to take the one that gives us a higher chance of being the spectacular outcome, even if that means we're possibly going to go down in crashing, burning flames, right?”